dioscoreaceae in a sentence

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1. "' Yam "'is the common name for some plant species in the genus " Dioscorea " ( family Dioscoreaceae ) that form edible tubers.
2. In his examination of Huber's Stemonales, he found that the two constituent families had as close an affinity to Dioscoreaceae as to each other, and hence included them.
3. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family "'Taccaceae "', but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae.
4. "' Dioscoreaceae "'is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 715 known species in nine yam ( some species of " Dioscorea " ).
5. Under the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system of 1998, which took Dahlgren's system as a basis, the order was placed in the monocot clade and comprised the five families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Taccaceae, Thismiaceae and Trichopodaceae.
6. Larvae feed variously on Annonaceae ( most commonly ), Magnoliaceae ( commonly ), Lauraceae ( commonly ), Rutaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Bombacaceae, Piperaceae, Anacardiaceae, Apocynaceae, Malpighiaceae, Hernandiaceae, Guttiferae, Monimiaceae, Pandanaceae, Winteraceae, and Euphorbiaceae.
7. Although some varieties of sweet potato ( " Ipomoea batatas " ) are also called " yam " in parts of the United States and Canada, the sweet potato is not part of the family Dioscoreaceae, but belongs in the unrelated morning glory family Convolvulaceae.
8. In Dahlgren's third and final version ( 1985 ) that broader circumscription of Dioscoreales was created within the superorder Lilianae, subclass Liliidae ( monocotyledons ), class Magnoliopsida ( angiosperms ) and comprised the seven families Dioscoreaceae, Petermanniaceae, Smilacaceae, Stemonaceae, Taccaceae, Trichopodaceae and Trilliaceae.
9. In APG II ( 2003 ), a number of changes were made to Dioscoreales, as a result of an extensive study by Caddick and colleagues ( 2002 ), using an analysis of three genes, APG III ( 2009 ) did not change this, so the order now comprises three families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae.